My dad is a carpet cleaner—and a very fine one, at that. It’s a lovely luxury to enjoy the feeling of fluffy, soft, newly-cleaned fibers under your feet. But, just like everything else in life, carpet requires maintenance. Most people clean their carpets about once every five years. However, if carpet receives a regular maintenance […]
After a long day at school, I was ready to get home, throw on some old sweatpants, and relax. When I opened my bedroom door, however, I was greeted with a nasty surprise: I had left my window open and my room was now infested with insects all trying to escape the Georgia summer heat. […]
What if you lived your whole life thinking you were a smart and empowered woman only to get to Heaven and discover you were actually quite foolish? Thoughts like these stop me in my tracks all the time. They scare me. The thought of spending my whole life striving after what I believed to be […]
I recently saw an image on facebook that I did not want to see. The image was graphic, heartbreaking, and extremely thought provoking. The image pictured several men only moments before they were brutally put to death by the wicked hands of ISIS. When I saw that picture my mind went wild. What if I […]
“Do you have a boyfriend?” One girl asked her friend as they bagged my groceries. “Yeah, I do…but I still keep my eyes open.” She said winking at her friend. My ears perked up when she said that. Since I blog for Girl Defined, I’m always interested in hearing what teenage girls think about life. […]
“Hunched over his desk, penknife in hand, Thomas Jefferson sliced carefully at the pages of Holy Scripture, excising select passages and pasting them together to create a Bible more to his liking. The ‘Jefferson Bible.’ A book he could feel comfortable with. “What didn’t make it into the Jefferson Bible was anything that conflicted with […]
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